Kommerzbassist
Thunderbirdologist
First of all, sorry guys. I had to do it.
I got myself a TSL60.
On top of a Framus CS 2x12 cab with Vintage 30s.
And all I can say is...
THIS THING ROCKS! HARD! :headbang:
I haven't had the chance to take pics yet, but basically it looks like this...
ontop of
After unpacking it, I instantly faced the problem of not being able to get that aluminium thingy (whatever it is good for) off my V1 preamp tube to replace it with a Sovtek LPS. Thanks to ErikH this didn't hold me off too long though...
Then came the moment of truth... ok first came the on switch followed by a tube warming waittime... but then came the moment of truth!!!! (As I am a pisser when it comes to volume, I had the master volume at about 2 when turning on). But what was that? No sound at all coming out... (except the hum from the tubes which is there as soon as you turn the on switch on)...
I turned the master up to about 8... nothing... wtf was going on?
ok then I realised there is another seperate volume knob for clean and od channels :smack:
From that point on, I liked my new amp
After finding out what those other things like presence, deep and shift do, I played with the different gain settings and stuff...
Now after 2 hours of playing and turning all knobs about 10000 times I have found 2 things that aren't good on this amp:
1) If you turn the gain on the lead channel too high 7-10, it's quite noisy... but if you consider how much gain you have then, it is obvious this has to happen... I'll never use that much gain ever anyway... but that comes later
2) I can't play the clean channel. Impossible. If I'd do, the neighbours would instantly think I'm ghey because this thing sounds so beautiful
THE SOUND: :headbang:
Ok so I basically fiddled around a bit... a big bit... with all the controls, and so far this is what I found out:
Clean:
Sounds quite Fenderish when you put in a bit more bass and turn those mids down a bit. Other than that, I haven't played too much in it I have to admit.
Crunch:
My Favourite! Badass quite modern sounding channel, but you can also get some older hard rock sounds out of it. Sounds great at all levels of gain.
Lead:
Gain galore... you wouldn't expect it, but when you turn the gain down to about 3 this one truly has the vintage Marshall vibe... AC/DC sound pure. I didn't like that channel too much with higher gain though... sounded a bit strange... but maybe I just have to find the right EQ settings for that yet...
Then there are those extra thingys:
Reverb: Uhm yes... reverb... I try to avoid that effect... dunno... I never liked reverb too much
Presence: I always have it at 5... gives the best balance there
Deep switch: Like the name suggests, gives you a bit of a deeper bass responce (I think it's only for the clean channel), but I think it's nice without
Shift switch: Scoops out the mids for OD. Not exactly my taste... makes the sound somehow a bit liveless...
As for volume settings, I havent tried so much out there... master at 5, channel specific ones at 3... so far so good
Do I have to add something? Ah yes, this thing is heavy as hell... I had to drag it home on foot and it wasn't funny at all...
thanks for reading :banana: :banana: :banana:
I got myself a TSL60.
On top of a Framus CS 2x12 cab with Vintage 30s.
And all I can say is...
THIS THING ROCKS! HARD! :headbang:
I haven't had the chance to take pics yet, but basically it looks like this...
ontop of
After unpacking it, I instantly faced the problem of not being able to get that aluminium thingy (whatever it is good for) off my V1 preamp tube to replace it with a Sovtek LPS. Thanks to ErikH this didn't hold me off too long though...
Then came the moment of truth... ok first came the on switch followed by a tube warming waittime... but then came the moment of truth!!!! (As I am a pisser when it comes to volume, I had the master volume at about 2 when turning on). But what was that? No sound at all coming out... (except the hum from the tubes which is there as soon as you turn the on switch on)...
I turned the master up to about 8... nothing... wtf was going on?
ok then I realised there is another seperate volume knob for clean and od channels :smack:
From that point on, I liked my new amp
After finding out what those other things like presence, deep and shift do, I played with the different gain settings and stuff...
Now after 2 hours of playing and turning all knobs about 10000 times I have found 2 things that aren't good on this amp:
1) If you turn the gain on the lead channel too high 7-10, it's quite noisy... but if you consider how much gain you have then, it is obvious this has to happen... I'll never use that much gain ever anyway... but that comes later
2) I can't play the clean channel. Impossible. If I'd do, the neighbours would instantly think I'm ghey because this thing sounds so beautiful
THE SOUND: :headbang:
Ok so I basically fiddled around a bit... a big bit... with all the controls, and so far this is what I found out:
Clean:
Sounds quite Fenderish when you put in a bit more bass and turn those mids down a bit. Other than that, I haven't played too much in it I have to admit.
Crunch:
My Favourite! Badass quite modern sounding channel, but you can also get some older hard rock sounds out of it. Sounds great at all levels of gain.
Lead:
Gain galore... you wouldn't expect it, but when you turn the gain down to about 3 this one truly has the vintage Marshall vibe... AC/DC sound pure. I didn't like that channel too much with higher gain though... sounded a bit strange... but maybe I just have to find the right EQ settings for that yet...
Then there are those extra thingys:
Reverb: Uhm yes... reverb... I try to avoid that effect... dunno... I never liked reverb too much
Presence: I always have it at 5... gives the best balance there
Deep switch: Like the name suggests, gives you a bit of a deeper bass responce (I think it's only for the clean channel), but I think it's nice without
Shift switch: Scoops out the mids for OD. Not exactly my taste... makes the sound somehow a bit liveless...
As for volume settings, I havent tried so much out there... master at 5, channel specific ones at 3... so far so good
Do I have to add something? Ah yes, this thing is heavy as hell... I had to drag it home on foot and it wasn't funny at all...
thanks for reading :banana: :banana: :banana:
